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I am currently running OGR on 18 computers and will install a few more in a week or two.
I'm constantly on lookout for cheap components and computers to add to my farm.
I enjoy free electricity, but the space the cases take in my rather small apartment is a problem, as well as the noise and the 2kW of heat they generate.

That being said, I'm planning a "rack closet" which should house 50 or so computers (which is about the point when my fuses begin blowing ). So expect my contribution to increase little by little as my farm grows until I reach that goal, fry due to the heat or my landlord notices the electric bill!

Oh, as for the duration of the project, d.net has estimated it will take about the same time as the previous OGR-27, which was five years.
While the OGR-28 is more complex project, the algorithm has been improved. ...So it should take around 5-6 years to complete with the predicted rate of work being done.

The first two stubspaces are almost complete now, and the project's speed (measured in stubs) will increase as the stubs in stubspace 3 are smaller (in nodes).
Therefore the estimate of completion of OGR-28 around year 2040 is a bit of an overkill at this moment.

s07197, great to have you on board. Free electricity does help a lot. Mine isn't free but it is the cheapest in the US close to free. If you want some help finding the most efficient systems for running in your limited space and cooling capacity let me know. Hopefully fall will kick in early so I can fire up the rest of the systems in my shop.

I have the cabinet ready to be modified and for the cooling I have a 1200 m3/h extractor fan, which will suck the hot air from the cabinet and vent it out of the apartment. In addition I'm playing with the idea of using an arduino controlled thermostat to control and use the excess heat for the heating of the apartment (with the winters in Finland being kind of chilly...), but that's just an extra idea when I eventually finish the rack cabinet itself.

There are still some design issues to be tackled, primarily with the tray design. I want them to be height adjustable to accommodate as much hardware as possible in the limited space, as well as allow the maximum possible airflow to control the heat...
But all in just time, I'll get it done and maybe post some pictures of the final product!

Out of curiosity, what kind of system are you running yourself? You seem to be putting out pretty impressive numbers in OGR alone!
...And also out of curiosity, how much DO you generally pay for electricity in the US? I honestly have no idea...

Go Guru, bet those nodes keep cool up there ... I don't wanna know how my node would handle the heat if I could fire her up... need to get me a case and let it do a few Gigs of updates LOL... or dual boot it with Mint

Retired from Free-DC...
I don't have the time or money to help anymore...

I had my famous home made burgers tonight! Winter is coming, time to turn up the heat and shoot for top 5.

It's +2 degrees Celsius outside and snowing...
I have my heating off and two windows open...
And during the night the inside temp has dropped to 30 degrees!
...Getting chilly here too, better get a few more rigs together!

Need help. How to set up OGR to queue 1000 wus, keep sending as if finishes and keeps filling the queue to 1000.

You can do that by configuring the client to use dial-up detection only -connection setting. (configuration -> buffer -> keyserver/client -> dialup-link)
Even if you use permanent connection, the client will behave just as you'd like: Keep the buffer topped at the max level.

As for multiple machines, setting up personal proxy was (for me personally) just an unnecessary extra work. A huge amount of work, lol.
So I run my 30 or so machines without pproxy.

Would have been nice to have that 1000 buffer right now though... Soooo much wasted time with the keyserver down.

Yea both of my pproxy's are empty. For now I have switched some of my systems over to gimps. I hope the key server is brought back up soon.

Been a week now and not even a status report... Maybe I too should switch to some other project for the time being.
Not much sense in crunching through "random" RC5 packets, of which most have probably been done already.

Keyserver seems to be down again, but work units are still available on (some) proxies, so load up your buffers!
If this is going to be another long downtime, you'll need to have good heap of work in queue for the duration!

My "electricity included" -lease is almost up and during next week I'm doing the rather tedious job of disassembling and getting rid of my farm of ancient crunchers.
This means my production will be permanently decreased to maybe around 10% of what it has been.

It was a good (and cheap) run for a good project though!
You guys keep up the good work and keep on crunching awesomely!

It's been fun! My production has dropped as I am moving my cluster to a new home. I'll be running at a low production rate while work on other projects. Hopefully in the next month or two I will have everything setup again and be cranking away again. This has been a great team effort.